die-cutting

British  

noun

1. printing the cutting by machine of paper or card into shapes with sharp steel knives, such as in the manufacture of cardboard boxes

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Example Sentences

Chunks of original text have been removed by die-cutting, leaving the remaining words to tell the story.

From New York Times • Oct. 24, 2010

Bill Jack quit grammar school to learn the die-cutting trade, later took turns as a magician's helper, a baseball catcher, a prize fighter.

From Time Magazine Archive

Have your ultra-sharp pegs eaten through the soles so that you're about one good jump away from die-cutting u-shaped chunks out of your insoles?

From Time Magazine Archive

There are many other styles, such as die-cutting presses, automatic book-trimming machines, punching, stabbing, and eyeletting machines, rotary cutters and revolving-blade cutters attached to presses and other paper machines.

From Paper-Cutting Machines A Primer of Information about Paper and Card Trimmers, Hand-Lever Cutters, Power Cutters and Other Automatic Machines for Cutting Paper (Typographic Technical Series Part 1, No. 10) by Grayson, David